Every news account explaining why the TikTok "forced-sale/ban" finally passed after years of lingering in DC say what Romney said here: not because of China, but because members of both parties became convinced that there was too much Israel criticism allowed to circulate there:
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It's utterly staggering how many government attacks there have been on core rights of free speech and free protest in the US since Oct 7: DeSantis banning pro-Palestine student groups, Greg Abbott's executive order, the new "anti-Semitism" law. But the TikTok bill is included:
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This is the sort of rank idiocy that finally caused the TikTok bill to pass after years of stalling in Washington: